To buy a pig in a poke – a Danish-German language collaboration on fixed expressions
Have you ever “bought a pig in a poke”?
If you speak Danish (at købe katten i sækken) or German (die Katze im Sack kaufen), you might already know this phrase. If not, you are about to discover why idioms and fixed expressions are so fascinating – and why they matter for communication across languages.
Share your favorite expressions with the project here.
The project
Knowing and being able to use each other’s language is one of the most important prerequisites for a well-functioning community. For the Danish-German border region, this applies in particular, since knowledge and command of the neighbor’s language cannot be taken for granted. German faces difficult conditions in Denmark, while Danish as … ↪